Intensity and characteristic length of braided channel patternsThis paper is one of a selection of papers in this Special Issue in honour of Professor M. Selim Yalin (1925–2007).

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering - Tập 36 Số 10 - Trang 1656-1666 - 2009
Peter Ashmore1
1Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C2, Canada (email:)

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Recent research on braided river morphology shows that the intensity (number of anabranches) of braiding channels increases with dimensionless discharge and (or) stream power. This variation in intensity reflects the adjustment of total sinuosity of the river to imposed gradient at a given discharge and grain size. Only a subset of channels is active at a given time and this active braiding intensity reflects the limited number of channels that can sustain bed load transport as the flow is divided. This is governed mechanistically by the dynamics of bifurcations and avulsions. Braided channel networks also have a characteristic length scale (or scales) related to the wavelength of the bars from which braiding develops and to the scale of the bars and confluence–bifurcation units within the braided network. The range of scales is limited by the size (and, therefore, number) of the active channels within the network and the width of the entire river.

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